Jerry95

Wow, is that your primary automobile, or do you use it for leisure purposes only?

I'd imagine it'll be renumbered 10B, with I-4 combined as 10A. Shame really, I-4 should've been changed to 10, with Orange Ave EB/South Street WB taking 11A. Mainline I-4 has new exit numbers for downtown, which make things a little easier for motorists: Exit 81 (Formerly 81A/B/C) - Kaley/Michigan Exit 82 (formerly 82A) - EB/WB to 408 Exit 83 (formerly 82B) - EB to South Street, WB to Anderson Street Exit 84A (formerly 83A EB, WB unchanged) - EB to Amelia, WB to Colonial Exit 84B (new EB ramp, WB unchanged) - EB to Colonial, WB to Ivanhoe

We've got to remember that AV implementation will never be a flip of a switch, it'll be a phased transition. Right now it'll be the Teslas of the world, then some agencies are going to convert highway lanes to AV only lanes and so forth. Speeding up the process is only going to happen if there's a government backed pushed for green AV to combat emissions. I believe this is the year all new cars are required to have back up cameras. It'll be another 20 years before the last car without one is retired. I'm sure most large companies will purchase commercial AVs that operate the same way as personal carriers and allow users to create road space as needed. Imagine how much safer highway construction and motorway-side vehicle repairs will be if all vehicles were programmed to clear the lane.

I remember hearing about this a few years ago. Lake Mary has always done a great job with it's economic development marketing, but this just seems to miss the mark to me. Seminole County has it's own charm, weird to see it brushed to the side in the name of "Orlando". I guess if it works

Understand you're being a little tongue in cheek, but I think these are the interface questions that the market will decide. My subscription might only covers rides, waiting for up to 30 minutes is an additional x dollars, waiting for hours is a per hour charge. No doubt the ease of autonomous transportation will be made confusing by those hoping to squeeze every penny out of the consumer. As for the argument about where AVs park, every major city in America operates a rubber tired transportation system with peak time increases in fleet size. Some may have a downtown storage, others where land is cheaper. If the bus companies can figure it out, I'm sure the AV folks can too.

You need to make a few assumptions about the future of auto ownership: Users will not own their cars; rather, they'll request and book them from an Uber-like service. Autonomous vehicles will ferry passengers during the day when they would normally be parked. Autonomous vehicles will be programmed to continue driving rather than paying for parking.

I don’t understand why downtown retail is controversial. I live in the North Quarter and I’d love to see a grocery store and a Target within walking distance. I’d also like to see more restaurants that open on a Sunday up here. I may be in the minority but why live in a downtown area if I’m going to do all my shopping on Amazon. Back to pedestrianization: Orlando seems to think that the best downtown ped infrastructure we can build is a poorly routed cycling trail between the SunRail tracks and Garland even though Orange Ave is the real N-S spine, especially for walking from the NQ to the CBD proper. The Lymmo lanes on Magnolia also don’t seem fit for purpose anymore as no one really uses the Orange line as a commuter shuttle from the Centroplex park and ride to the office buildings. Would pedestrianizing Magnolia be effective or is there not enough foot traffic to warrant it? Would pedestrianizing Orange with a cycle track in the middle and turning Magnolia and Rosalind to two-way streets create a strong night-life district post-COVID? Would a new pedestrian corridor from Camping World to the Amway on Church promote new development along a ‘Stadium Walk’ corridor that encourages tourists to spend time downtown and for locals to cross under I-4? It seems like all of us UPers can agree we want to see a stronger/even more walkable downtown core, with places to go, wide sidewalks, and plenty of shade trees (and plenty of water fountains). Right now we have a lot of vertical developments projects underway. What I’d like to know is whether the City will take an active role in trialing and implementing new streetscape programs to create a sense of place and if the rest of Orlando/Orange County really cares about downtown.

I (well my parents) bought my first car one week before they sent me off to college from that lot, I wasn't really fused about driving but they figured that with a car I'd be more likely to visit them. Maybe when I'm old I'll go to this restaurant and tell my grandkids this is where I bought my first car just for the "what the heck are you talking about" reaction.

Meant to post these last week, here’s a view of the hotel and wellness center from the top of the garage

Decided to venture down there today, WOW this Target is great! It feels like it’s just the right size for a future downtown location yet I was still able to find everything I needed! The store let’s in lots of light and even has windows in the back.

Besides the Pottery Studio what else is at the Downtown Rec Center? With this and the Tennis Centre leaving is it inevitable that the Downtown Center will be cleared for future UCF expansion?

These are smaller than the Targets or Super Targets. Gainesville added one next to the UF campus while I was there, sure would’ve been nice if I was still in a dorm. I really want to see one added to downtown.

Too good a name, my money’s on something lame like Sentinel Village

Looks like a push for work from home for now. What this means for the future remains up for interpretation. Not sure how the Sentinel unionizing efforts factor into this. https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/orange-county/os-ne-orlando-sentinel-building-20200812-4244k6tmyjd7bopeiperamerom-story.html https://bungalower.com/2020/08/12/orlando-sentinel-to-vacate-downtown-building/

I'm all for the Sentinel moving to CV, considering UCF has a decent Communications and Media presence over there already. I'd love to see a new major building for Media and Emerging Technology with communal newsrooms, tech labs, and studios for audio, visual, and virtual platforms. Having a major tenant would definitely make this achievable.

The proprietary lights on Magnolia are just awful. They really need to extend to College Park/future Packing District, SoDo and Ivanhoe Village.

Looks like City of Orlando has a new MPB portal: https://www.orlando.gov/Building-Development/Planning-Approvals/View-Open-Development-Applications-MPB Development projects are shown on a map view with a page for each project. Attachments can be found on each project page.

They look so small in the render! Really, for a downtown circulator the current buses just don’t have the capacity and feel so gloomy and it doesn’t look like this will be an improvement. https://www.thedailycity.com/post/orlando-electric-busses

Is the whole thing named after Holland? I thought part of it was renamed the Arnold Palmer Expressway.

Agreed! Have you tried the current airport connection via Link 111? The mismatched ticket system is painful, especially when you’re trying to get a transfer at the SunRail platform as a train is arriving. It’s stressful.

SunRail absolutely needs to connect to the airport.

“This project will be broken into 5 stages to reduce disruption to motorists” *stares at I-4* This is one I actually want to see delayed by a year or two - this could be a major multimodal corridor within the next decade and it really would make sense to do all that work at the same time.

I grew up in a major European city for the first 10 years of my life. We had a public transportation system that made car ownership very optional. That said we did end up having two family cars and were in a unique position to be able to park both of those on the street. I think downtowns/urban cores need to have walkable areas supplemented with transit connections to commuter parking located on the perimeter. Residential parking can be available, but give residents the option of spending more to have their car parked close to their residence or spending less to park in a less walkable, but well connected, garage. As an aside, UF had (has?) a policy where they only provide parking for 20% of those who live/work/study on campus. The rest is supplemented by bus ridership, moped use, walking and cycling. I'm glad that I had the option to use the bus as a student and had the choice to decide when and how I got to campus. I hear horror stories from FSU and UCF where driving to campus was an ordeal.

I don’t think the lane striping is in its final configuration yet, I imagine two lanes will continue from the ramp system to 408E then merge after they’ve joined the mainline. I did a very similar thing...